Seminars
Department of Sociology Seminar Series - Past Speaker Abstracts and Papers
SPRING 2008
Stephen Gastyer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Social Organization of Community Water Infrastructure Management in Palestine
Dingxin Zhao, University of Chicago
Early China Warfare and the Rise of Confucian-Legalist State
The Rise of the Early Chinese Empire and Patterns of Chinese History
Jennifer Glanville, University of Iowa
Intergenerational Closure and Educational Outcomes: Assessing the Impact of Boding versus Bridging social Capital
Melvin Kohn, Johns Hopkins University
Cross-National Research as an Analytic Strategy
Social Structure and Personality under Conditions of Radical Social Change: A Comparative Analysis of Poland and Ukraine
Christy Lleras, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ability Grouping Practices in elementary School and African American/Hispanic Achievement
Race, Racial Concentration, and the Dynamics of Educational Inequality Across Urban and Suburban Schools
Wendy Roth, Univeristy of British Columbia
"'Latino Before the World': Panethnicity and the Transnational Diffusion of Identity"
"'There is No Discrimination Here": Understanding Latinos' Perceptions of Color Discrimination Through Sending-Receiving Society Comparison
Transnational Racializations: The Extension of Racial boundaries from Receiving to Sending Societies
Michele Lamont, Harvard Univeristy
Social Inclusion as a Dimension of Society
Transnational Seminar Speaker Series - Past Speaker Abstracts and Papers
SPRING 2008
Clarence Lo, University of Missouri
Marxist Models of the Capitalist State and Politics
Valentine Moghadam, Purdue University
Women's Movements in the Middle East and North Africa
Satomi Yamamoto, University of Illinois
Understanding Intermediaries in Migrations
Tim Luke, Virginia Tech
"How Flat is the Earth: Mapping 'Geo-Greenism' on Thomas Friedman's Ever-Flatter World as Transnationality"